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February 2, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Twin Primes as a Persistence Phenomenon in a Canonically Indexed Sieve

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DZDaniel Augusto Jorge Zafaranich

Key Points

  • The research aims to reformulate the twin prime problem using a deterministic indexed framework.
  • Reformed the twin prime problem with a canonical decomposition of the form n=6t+r.
  • Represented twin prime candidates as ordered indexed pairs with specific displacements.
  • Analyzed periodic structures of congruence obstructions using the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
  • Explored interactions along the index axis with respect to prime and composite moduli.
  • Provided a framework to understand the periodic structure of twin prime obstructions.
  • Concluded that infinitely many twin prime pairs exist based on the rigidity of obstructions.
  • Demonstrated that complete coverage by obstructions is ruled out, preserving twin primes.

Abstract

We reformulate the twin prime problem within a fully deterministic and indexedframework, where divisibility and primality are encoded exactly by congruenceconditions on a single index axis. Using the canonical decomposition n=6t+r with r\1, 5\, twin primecandidates are represented as ordered indexed pairs with fixed relativedisplacement. For each prime p5, primality induces exactly two canonically anchoredcongruence obstructions on the index variable, one for each component of thepair. We analyze the exact periodic structure of these obstructions and theirinteraction at finite levels via Chinese Remainder Theorem assembly. Composite moduli introduce no additional freedom beyond prime intersections, and higher prime powers do not generate new constraints below their naturalindex scales. This yields a sharp separation between the structural congruential layer, whereinfinite compatibility always persists, and the Archimedean layer, whererealizability by actual integers is decided. We show that extinction of twin primes would require complete coverage of finiteintervals of the index axis by canonically anchored obstructions. Such coverage is ruled out by rigidity alone: the twin obstruction systemsatisfies bounded local multiplicity and therefore falls within the scope of ageneral Archimedean non--coverage principle. As a consequence, admissible indices persist beyond every finite scale, andinfinitely many twin prime pairs exist. All arguments are exact, finite, and deterministic. No analytic estimates, density heuristics, or probabilistic methods are used.

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Daniel Augusto Jorge Zafaranich (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980fc37c1c9540dea80df37https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18410760
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